Hanoi's Mid-Autumn Festival, a Century Ago: Star Lanterns and Paper Magic in Rare Colour Photos
Rare colour photos from 1915-1937 show Hanoi's Mid-Autumn Festival: handmade star lanterns, shadow lamps and l...
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Spioenkop: the KZN hilltop where trenches still cut through the grass
Spioenkop in KwaZulu-Natal: visible trenches, memorials and graves from the 1900 Anglo-Boer War battle, set in...
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Sydney's Bronze Boar Has Been Quietly Raising Money for a Hospital Since 1968
A replica of Florence's famous Porcellino boar sits outside Sydney Hospital — rub its snout, drop a coin, and...
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Dag Hammarskjöld at 65: the Uppsala grave, and the UN job still unfinished
Sixty-five years after Dag Hammarskjöld died near Ndola, his Uppsala grave and his doctrine of preventive dipl...
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Beaulieu: The New Forest Village That Really Does Mean 'Beautiful Place'
Beaulieu in the New Forest is a storybook English village with abbey ruins, Victorian Palace House and great e...
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Hobart's ghost zoo: the sad story of Beaumaris, home of the last Tasmanian tiger
The rise and fall of Beaumaris Zoo in Hobart, where the last thylacine died in 1936 — and why its ghostly ruin...
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The Oldest Ferris Wheel in America Isn't Where You Think
The oldest Ferris wheel in America is the 1893 Phoenix Wheel in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania — a restored sculpt...
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Kyirong Valley: Tibet's 'Valley of Happiness' Before the Flood
Tibet's Kyirong Valley, hit by August's deadly Langtang Lirung flood, has a deep history of trade, Buddhism, H...
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How a winter of schoolboy footy in 1858 Melbourne became the AFL
From a disputed 1858 schoolboys' match in Melbourne to the 18-team AFL: the surprising origins of Aussie rules...
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A 500-Year-Old Gothic Doorway Hiding on a Madrid University Campus
Madrid's Puerta del Hospital de la Latina is a 500-year-old Gothic doorway rescued from demolition and rebuilt...
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Where to Find the Real Pirates of the Caribbean, From Sunken Cities to Capt Kidd's Ship
Track real Caribbean pirate history: Nassau's pirate republic, sunken Port Royal, Captain Kidd's wreck, Blackb...
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Rimski Terma: Slovenia's Roman Baths Still Flowing After 2,000 Years
Rimski Terma in Laško, Slovenia: Roman-era mineral baths, royal-gifted trees and a hotel-spa complex you can s...
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